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Earth's interior is cooling faster than expected

Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)

Still unanswered, though, are the questions of how fast the Earth cooled and how long it might take for this ongoing cooling to bring the aforementioned heat-dr...

Copper-based chemicals may be contributing to ozone depletion

Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)

In a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Communications, UC Berkeley geochemists show that copper in soil and seawater acts as a catalyst to turn or...

SpaceX launches 44 SuperDove satellites for Planet Labs

Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)

These 44 satellites will join Planet's existing fleet of roughly 200 satellites in orbit. Planet has now launched 127 satellites across eight launches with Spac...

Manufacturing revenues for Remote Sensing to reach $76B by 2030

Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)

With the Earth Observation manufacturing market gearing up for another decade of growth to an estimated $76.1 billion in revenue, the latest study reflects prof...

How the Earth's tilt creates short, cold January days

Jan 11, 2022 (The Conversation)

There are two other important factors: First, the Earth is round, although it's not a perfect sphere. Second, its axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees relative to ...

A dirt cheap solution? Common clay materials may help curb methane emissions

Jan 11, 2022 (SPX)

Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a promising approach to controlling methane emissions and removing it from the air, using an inexpensive and ...

UK sets New Year's Day temperature record

Jan 01, 2022 (AFP)

The mercury climbed to 16.2C in St James's Park in central London, according to a provisional Met Office reading, easily beating out the previous record of 15.6...

UK records warmest ever New Year's Eve

Jan 01, 2022 (AFP)

The village of Ryehill in Yorkshire in northern England recorded a temperature of 14.9C at 11 am on Friday, breaking a previous record of 14.8C set in Wales in ...

China launches Tianhui 4 satellite into orbit

Dec 30, 2021 (XNA)

The State-owned space contractor said the satellite was deployed by a Long March 2D carrier rocket that blasted off at 7:13 pm and has entered orbit. Tianhui 4,...

NASA: New topography satellite masts unfurl successfully

Dec 29, 2021 (UPI)

The satellite, also known as SWOT, was designed to capture precise measurements of the height of water in Earth's freshwater bodies and the ocean. It will also ...

China receives data from newly launched resource satellite

Dec 27, 2021 (XNA)

The ground station in Beijing's Miyun District tracked and received the downlink data from the 5-meter optical satellite in two receiving tasks that lasted abou...

China launches new resource satellite

Dec 27, 2021 (XNA)

The resource satellite, ZY-1 02E, was launched at 11:11 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-4C carrier rocket. The satellite, developed by the China Academy of ...

L3Harris Completes Delivery of Imagers for NOAA's Advanced Environmental Satellites

Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)

The fourth Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) will be integrated into the GOES-U satellite, slated to launch in 2024, and will be operated by NOAA. The ABI is the w...

Fire and ice: The puzzling link between western wildfires and Arctic sea ice

Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)

But the relationship between fire and ice, in terms of Earth's climate, is not quite as "either or" as Frost depicted. In the case of a study presented at the 2...

Virgin Orbit Expands Space Solutions Business With Hypersat Investment

Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)

This investment will further expand Virgin Orbit's space solutions business by providing highly accurate electro-optic and hyperspectral imagery capabilities, w...

Researchers identify new meteorological phenomenon dubbed atmospheric lakes

Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)

Brian Mapes, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami who recently noticed and described the unique storms, will present his findings on Thursday, 16...

Raytheon Intelligence and Space to build Space Force weather satellite prototype

Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)

"Continuing the DMSP EO/IR capability is critical to military planning for land, sea and air operations" said Paul Meyer, vice president of Space and C2 Systems...

Swarm and Cluster get to the bottom of geomagnetic storms

Dec 17, 2021 (ESA)

Using information from ESA's Cluster and Swarm missions along with measurements from the ground, scientists have, for the first time, been able to confirm that ...

Solely European supply chain for space-qualified Alexandrite laser crystals on the horizon

Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)

Laser crystals made of Alexandrite have a tunable wavelength between approx. 700 nm and 850 nm. When used in LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) systems in sate...

MDA announces Chorus as new commercial EO mission

Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)

A collaborative multi-sensor constellation, CHORUS will bring together multiple diverse and unique perspectives in harmony, opening the aperture and the art of ...